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How Much Can You Make Off 1 Million Facebook Users?

written by John Chow on September 13, 2007

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If 999,999 People Join This Group My Dad Won’t Kick Me Out

19 year old Tiffany Stewart came home drunk one Saturday night and got caught by her father. Now he is going to be kicked her out of the house for being a problem child.

I tried to explain to my dad that it is normal for people my age to experiment with alcohol (most of my friends drink every weekend) – and that he is over reacting by kicking me out! I rarely drink and when I do it’s with friends I trust and we have a sobar driver! Dad thinks that NO ONE my age has ever consumed alcohol, and that I’m just a problem child. Since he refuses to “support my alternative lifestyle” I’m getting the boot. :(

Fortunately, Tiffany’s step mom stepped in and struck up a bargain. If the drunken 19 year old can find one million people that drank by age 20 and still turned out OK in life, she gets to stay. Tiffany is person #1. She only need to find 999,999 more. You can help her reach her goal by joining her Facebook group. In the five days the group has been up, the group had amassed over 11,000 members and growing at an amazing rate.

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Then again, who wouldn’t want to join a group made up of drunken party girls? Tiffany is the blonde at the center.

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The winner of this auction will get a link to their website posted in the group information (it will be the official URL of the group and will be the sole link displayed in the group). We will also write whatever you want about the website in the News section, and will encourage all members to visit the website! Your link will remain for the entire life of the group (you will still be getting hits from this group 12 months down the road).

The current bid is $6.50. A test link was posted for 14 hours on September 11th (when the group was at 4300 members) and received 561 clicks. Imagine how many clicks you’ll get once the group gets over a million members?

Real Situation or Evil Marketer at Work?

The Facebook group says Tiffany Stewart is from Charlotte, NC. However, I can’t find her individual Facebook profile. A search turned up a bunch of Tiffany Stewart, but none from Charlotte. The eBay auction was set up by some guy name Ben of Halifax, Nova Scotia (East coast of Canada). It looks like Ben created this group just to sell the sponsorship spot. I am not sure if Tiffany Stewart is real or if she is really being kicked out of the house, or if she even knows Ben. What I do know is the MySpacing of Facebook has begun.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to create a million user Facebook group. How does, “Join This Group or I’ll Kill The Panda!” sound?

*Update – It looks like Facebook reads my blog. They have removed the group. As a result, Ben has removed the eBay auction.

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Interesting story looks like it was just link bait.

"*Update - It looks like Facebook reads my blog. They have removed the group. As a result, Ben has removed the eBay auction."

Hahah, but its back up and going... but i would be cautious about buying the auction as it could go down and disappear without any recourse.. unless the price still stays cheap, then it might be worth it.. .lol

wow ... when I read it got shut down, I thought, that poor girl is gonna get kicked out now. LOL
Darin

joined. its up to 13,000 members now.

Damn, the 2nd and 3rd(middle) in that pic are awesome!

And good analysis too john on the way facebook is heading, nice to see they removed the group

The auction has been relisted without a link to the group :)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&...

looks like they ended the auction ... wonder why?
LOL
Darin

It's evil of course. You are basically trying to sell adv space on a website not yours!!!

Chicks in skimpy clothing = attention :grin:

Yea, it almost seems like a scam, as i think other have pointed out... 'hot girls + sob story' = seen it all before

Chow you are a creepy old man

This sounds like another scam thing to me!

Yep, sounds like an evil genius at work. And probably a rich one.

I didn't read the post John, but I will. I simply stopped by because you made my morning infinitely more enjoyable by sharing the photo of... well, who cares who they are!

lol That is priceless. That last Panda line floored me.

Everybody involved could use spelling lessons. Maybe that's my commercial success story. Spelling lessons for scammers.... and bloggers.

I'd kick her out too. :twisted:

I would've joined just for the brunette.

Having had three stepmothers, I knew it wasn't for real. Tiffany's step mother was way to cool. :roll:

Very interesting to watch the whole story unfold. As Facebook is the new 'in thing' there will be many more stunts like this (remember the copy cat pages of the million dollar pixel page). I wonder if we will be all talking about Facebook this time next year or if there will be a new kid on the block.

i won't join her group, but she can stay at my place when she gets kicked out of the house :evil:

I knew that photo looked too good to be true! lol :shock:

It looked like bullsh*t from the start. What a waste of time. It could have been done so much better, like if it was even remotely believable compared to that ludicrous story.

It was a good idea but the guy was an idiot you dont auction off something like that you use your own sites.

Great concept in viral marketing. Spot on target with demographics. Need to be alittle more professional in covering tracks. Also, think things out alittle bit better so most people don't yell "SCAM!" when they hear/read it.

I don't drink, so very sorry guys I can't be of any help to make the count touch to 999, 999.

I definitely have intentions to try it out. I already set one group up for my science site and I will be setting another one up soon for another one of my sites. I may do a case study about it and if it does well, I'll let everyone know. This is a great way for viral marketing and could really spread like wild fire.

Shows you can think of anything ridiculous and people would still support you anyway. :twisted:

What a bunch of ****ing sluts, they'll never amount to anything. Good dad in my opinion.

Great stuff - you guys are CRAZY.

Haha, John you will get the banned button if you make that group :P Its like Google and their Adsense banning spree :P

Way to ruin his scheme, lol.

Thanks a lot John. You just have to blog about everything... damn you!! :evil:

Kidding, nice work. Groups like that shouldn't be allowed.

damn, you ruined it john. ugh, your so detestable.

Its a great link bait by the girls, i thought you had already attempt murder on that small panda? :mrgreen:

Haha...that's how you know you're blog has too much leverage...when a billion dollar website listens to what you're saying...

Nice story but it's a great link bait :mrgreen:

Definitely an evil marketing scheme, yet super bright.

I WAS the high bidder (gotblack is me). They (she) canceled all bids and closed the auction.

I think the group has been deleted...cuz of it's scamness.

Definitely an interesting way to make money...don't believe the whole story - at all.

I don't know about you, but I'd like to ask each girl in that photo:

"Vood u like to go vo a roll in de hay?"

:mrgreen:

Awesome movie. A month or two ago they had a pop-up video type of thing going on with Young Frankenstain on AMC. Alot of cool behind the scenes stuff.

We're the corporation behind this :twisted:
Facebook just deleted the group outright - no warnings!
I have consequently closed the eBay auction, my apologizes to those who bidded!
Looks like Facebook is not the new MySpace when it comes to Internet marketing hehe ;)

Facebook is by far superior to MySpace when it comes to marketing. You're not evil enough to cover your tracks. Geez...lonelygirl15 was fake and it took people close to a year to figure it out. If you're going to fake something on the internet, you have to do it well.

Yeah, maybe you should have included a couple of munters in the picture to throw people of the trail.

The group link forwards to my facebook index page instead of the group. Anyone else having a problem?

I'll provide the panda if I get a link back :cool:

Or maybe my offer is as fake as this Facebook group.